Gravity’s so powerful, it’s letting you win this round just to remind you who’s really in charge when you drop your phone
Make gravity your bitch
Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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spicystraw@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Say that to gravity when you start even 5m above the ground.
exasperation@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Gravity ain’t shit. It’s not the falling that kills you, it’s the impact at the bottom. Which are electromagnetic forces.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Well the electromagnetic forces in your bones are no match for the accumulated energy of a few seconds of gravity.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The thing is, you need an entire planet to make falling hurt, and jumping is still easy. Meanwhile, if you have two tiny magnets they can pull on each other so strongly that you can never get them apart again.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yeah, go ahead, how long can you keep it up? The earth can wait longer than you.
pornpornporn@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Just lost fate in my muscles
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There goes all our bragging about humanity’s physical superpower being endurance.
vane@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Now keep this hand raised for an hour. Who’s the bitch now ?
Comment105@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
If it takes your an hour to wear me down, you’re weak. No matter how inexhaustible your power is.
vane@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How about 10 minutes ? World record is 9.
exactlyhowlong.com/how-long-can-a-person-hold-the…pathief@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh don’t worry, it will be way less than an hour :P
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Lower strength, but far more endurance.
Zuriz@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Weak you say?.. See those merging black holes? Proceeds to casually dissapear 3 solar masses in less than a second… Yeah.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Which is still just a small fraction of the total mass of the black holes
If it were the electromagnetic force that pulled them together it would be so much more violent and send out deadly gamma rays
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
But that will never happen, because electromagnetic forces haven’t learned the power of friendship and co-operation. Gravity always works together, but the other fickle fundamental forces just can’t decide if they are pushing or pulling or whatever.
hOrni@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I just overcame the gravitational pull of the entire planet with my dick.
Krelis_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If your dick overcomes the gravitational pull of the entire planet for more than four hours, seek medical attention
callyral@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
username checks out
dellish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Referring to your girlfriend that way is not very nice.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Your dick also overcame the gravitational pull of all other dicks.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You didn’t overcome it, you spend some energy that the earth will eventually get back.
Unless you leave earth, gravity will eventually win.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
They are launching objects to space accidentally, doing it intentionally cant be that hard
Evotech@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Can’t even win then. Gravity isn’t just on earth. It’s a universal force.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you’re hot enough and place a mirror below you blackbody radiation should do a pretty good job at preventing that. If you’re not that hot you might need extra patience and without the mirror it might not be too effective.
Now that I think about it this might be considered as parts of oneself leaving earth though.
Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This unlocked a song that has been buried in my mind for YEARS:
Now some of you may think that gravity is strong Cuz when you fall Off your bicycle It don’t take long Until you hit the earth And you say, “Dang that hurt!”
But if you think the force Is powerful You’re wrong
You see, gravity It’s weaker than weak!
And the reason why Is something many Scientists seek
They think about dimensions We live in just three But maybe there are others That are too small to see
It’s into these dimensions that gravity extends Which makes it seem weaker here on our end
And these dimensions are rolled up, curled so tight That they don’t affect you in your day-to-day life
But if you were as tiny as a graviton You could enter these dimensions and go wandering on And they’d find you…
LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone, ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
mmddmm@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Oh, a song from the time superstrings were still cool?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent for a system of five or seven dimensions — if only we lived in one.
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Wasn’t this in Particle Fever? That doc is incredible.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
“Gravity is weaker than weak” is such a strong line.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Did he just tough-talk the curvature of space-time?
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
thats just because the gravitational pull of your hand is weak shit.
Get more mass, massless nerd.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In a system where gravity is pulling on your hand, which is stronger, the force of the earth pulling in your hand, or the force of your hand pulling on the Earth?
Answer: it’s a trick question. In such a system, both sides feel the force equally
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
if we’re talking gravity physics, the earth, by basically every possible kilogram of mass imaginable to the human mind. But this goes without saying, because you stick to the earth, the earth doesn’t stick to you, so.
Of course technically, the force is applied to both objects, but considering the scale mismatch, one of these things is not like the other.
Naz@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
And now jump in the air and escape the gravitational pull.
12 kilometers straight up.
- 150 km.
Gravity not so weak now, huh?
SARGE@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
It’s still weak, just like humans are still slow.
At least compared to other animals.
But like gravity, we just keep going. And going. And going.
And when the animals we hunted collapsed from exhaustion, we just kept coming. And then took it all the way back we came.
Just like gravity.
We can try to keep going until we just can’t anymore, but gravity will just grab us and haul us back.
Compared to the other forces, gravity is a weak ass bitch.
Comtief@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Also not so weak if you find yourself at a height in the air.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
And still it is powerful enough to completely close off parts of the universe from the rest. Truly fascinating.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Back issues are Gravity’s revenge.
don@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Yeah but ain’t no motherfucker gonna soon be jumping over onto the moon with pure human leg power. Still gotta detonate a slowly exploding bomb under our asses to leave this rock-covered ball bearing.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
True, however… as you press into this planet, this planet presses into you.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Overcome? The hand is clearly still under the effect of gravity as it is not flowing into the space. It just decelerates a tiny bit.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Supermassive Blackholes: “Gravity is weak, huh?”
nuko147@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Yeah keep it up for 10 mins and we talking again.
Fleur_@hilariouschaos.com 3 weeks ago
Oh, should be no problem for you to leave earth then
Adkml@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
Not to “Ermmm acshually” but you haven’t overcome the gravitational pull you’ve just counteracted it.
Overcoming it is significantlly more difficult.
The swirly line forms to the left.
Comment105@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
“Not to um actually, but actually” should be the new um actually
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a kid I used to have dreams that I could levitate by sort of straining my muscles upward and lifting myself away from the ground. It would be pretty cool to do that IRL.
meyotch@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Funny, I had a similar series of dreams as a kid like that. I just sort of learned to ‘walk upwards’ and levitate.
Phlimy@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
Mine was that if I curled up into a ball I would float like a helium balloon lol.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
omg that was you? We could have played quidditch!
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I used to contemplate jumping in the air, then quickly using my foot to spring upward off of my other leg/foot, and repeating that until I’ve reached a desired elevation.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Pathetic. I can easily overcome the gravitational pull of all the milky way just with my pinkie.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nope. Gravity goes both ways. Actually it’s the curve of space time pushing you toward another mass. And you can only overcome because your mass is puny next to the earth.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Lifts cup of tea
PHEW I’m done for the day.
Ghost33313@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Lucky you. I struggle to fight gravity getting out of bed.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Same same, but I want my cuppa so…
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Then gravity reminds you who’s boss the next time e you trip over your own feet
nothx@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
what does gravity even bench?
Sibshops@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Magnetic force is hilariously weak. Go outside and raise your hand. You just over came the magnetic force of the Entire Earth.
lil_tank@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
Bro is made of iron
Sibshops@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I’m built different
huf@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
turned to steel in a great magnetic field
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I read this in the voice of Charlie from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Zacryon@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The face of the earth when I lift a finger: :o
rockerface@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Gravity is the weakest fundamental force, yes. At least, at relatively close distances. The advantage gravity has is that it never quite goes away, no matter how far you are.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
So it’s like humans? 🤔
We aren’t particularly strong, but we became apex predators because we never. Stop. Coming.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also, we, never, stop, cumming.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Can you imagine being those antelope being hunted by early human ancestors -
“Ok, bob, we just bolted at 40mph for a minute or so, they’re not going to find us again.”
“Clarice, you said that the last 8 times and they still showed up! They’re unnatural! They just keep following and following us! Alex smashed his shin that last run, and I don’t know how many more times I can run myself! We’re doomed Clarice! Doomed!”
rooroo@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
about to make ourselves go away from bough.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Exactly. Raise your hand. Great, you overcame gravity for a second. Keep your hand raised for a minute. 10 minutes. An hour. Fuck, gravity doesn’t stop. It’s exactly like us.
tdawg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean yeah but also you reverse that square enough and it’s effectively zero
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
But never actually zero, unlike those other quitter “forces”
InappropriateEmote@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
That’s true of all the fundamental forces, though. They all drop off over distance with inverse square laws. Like if you had two lone electrons in an otherwise empty universe, their electromagnetic repulsion would also persist indefinitely at 1/r^2 strength, just like gravity. The difference is that our universe has near-perfect charge neutrality at large scales.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Electromagnetic doesn’t go away either. It’s that damn negavite charge neutralizing the stuff.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Aren’t all forces subject to the inverse square law?
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Dipoles are, effectively, not — so if you have a charged bit and another opposite charged bit, while an inverse relationship might exist between either one, the net effect is that it drops off much faster.
The thing with gravity is it tends to go one way, unlike, say, charge.
einlander@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sounds like a stalker.